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Published on: July 10, 2017
Young children's views of stressful life events
Emory L Cowen1, Lannie Pryor-Brown1, Bohdan S Lotyczewski1
1Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14620.
Abstract:
Fourth through 6th grade urban and suburban children first judged how upsetting they thought each of 22 stressful life events would be if the events occurred to age-mates ("cognitive" set). The children then checked events they had actually experienced and rated each in terms of how upsetting it was for them ("experiential" set). Low-level consistencies were found among judged cognitive upset ratings for the 22 items. The latter formed three factors reflecting loss events getting into trouble, and change in living situation. Although there were significant relationships between judged cognitive and experiential upset ratings for the 22 events, absolute levels of judged upset were consistently higher under the cognitive set.
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